Keywords
Fields of Research (FoR)
Mental health services, People with disability, Health equitySEO tags
Biography
I am a registered psychologist and Senior Research Fellow with broad research interests including neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry. My clinical and research experience includes working with people with intellectual and developmental disability, mental health conditions, and progressive neurological conditions including people living with dementia. I am currently involved in a number of educational and research activities in the National...view more
I am a registered psychologist and Senior Research Fellow with broad research interests including neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry. My clinical and research experience includes working with people with intellectual and developmental disability, mental health conditions, and progressive neurological conditions including people living with dementia. I am currently involved in a number of educational and research activities in the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health which aim to improve health outcomes for people with complex support needs. My current projects utilise a broad range of research methods including surveys, interviews, Delphi method, and data linkage.
My Qualifications
- Bachelor of Psychology (Honours), Southern Cross University
- Master of Brain and Mind Sciences, The University of Sydney
- PhD (Psychiatry), UNSW Sydney
My Awards
2023 - UNSW School of Clinical Medicine Early-Mid Career Research Conference Travel Grant
2019 - Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration Conference Travel Grant
2018 - Travel Grant Award, Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes
2017 - Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research Travel Bursary
2014 - UNSW McConaghy Prize for Postgraduate Research
2013 - NSW Institute of Psychiatry Research Training Fellowship
2012 - NSW Institute of Psychiatry Research Training Fellowship
2012 - Dementia Collaborative Research Centres PhD Scholarship
2011 - Les Fountain Travel Bursary, Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes
My Research Activities
Selection of current research projects
- Understanding responsive behaviours among people with intellectual disability living with dementia
- Understanding the perinatal mental health of people with intellectual disability
- Using virtual reality to prepare for healthcare interactions
Past projects
- Improving palliative care services for people with an intellectual disability.
- Health profiles, health services use and transition to dementia in individuals with self-harm.
- Understanding the health and support needs of younger people with disabilities discharged from hospital to residential aged care.
- Using big data to understand the health status, service use, and service pathways of people with less common types of dementia.
- Addressing preventable disease burden to improve health outcomes for people with schizophrenia and related psychoses.
- Equipping future psychiatrists to meet the mental health needs of people with intellectual and developmental disability.
- Scoping work for a State-wide tertiary intellectual disability mental health service.
- Thinking and motor skills in premutation carriers of Fragile X.
- Using big data to understand the health status and service use of people with motor neurone disease.
- Using big data to understand the predictors of repeated self-harm in people with mental health and drug and alcohol comorbidity.
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
Health outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental disability, neurological conditions, and/or mental health conditions
My Engagement
Membership
- Associate Investigator (2024 to current) - UNSW Ageing Futures Institute
- Co-Chair (2023-2024) and Faculty Representative (2021-2024) - UNSW Women in Research Network (WiRN) Executive Committee
- Member (2021-2024) - UNSW Medicine & Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Discipline Representative (2023-2024) - UNSW School of Clinical Medicine Early and Mid Career Professional, Clinical and Academic Researcher Network Committee
- Medicine & Health Subcommittee Member (2021-2023), UNSW Early Career Academic Network
- Co-Chair (2022-2023), UNSW Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health Early and Mid Career Researcher Network
- Student Coordinator (2017 to current) - National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health (formerly Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry), UNSW Sydney
- Member (2015 to current) - The Fragile X Association of Australia Research and Scientific Committee
- Member (2017 to current) - International Fragile X-associated Tremor Ataxia Syndrome Consortium
In the media
My Teaching
I currently teach into Phase 2 Medicine (Society and Health) and Phase 3 Medicine (Psychiatry).
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8026-2155